Kurzweil K250

One of the first keyboard samplers, it was great then and still good
today. It has an adjustable sample rate of 5kHz to 50kHz which means 100
to 10 seconds of sampling time, respectively. Its sampler was also
16-bit. Many other samplers of this time had much more limited
sampling/digital audio specs which made this synth a very prominent
keyboard. By todays standards, however, this synth has many limitations
such as samples are stored directly on Apple Mac disks only. But it had
extremely modern features that make this synth easy to use and quite
versatile.

It has a 12-track sequencer, chorus, transpose, tune, 36 ROM sounds, 96
pristine quality acoustic instruments, 341 presets, 12 voice polyphony,
2 LFO's per voice, variable sampling rate, truncation, looping, velocity
crossfading, full 88 weighted keyboard, MIDI and more! Of course the
newer K2000 series is supposed to be better,
but the K250 still seems like a major contender even in todays modern
synthesizer era. It was also available in keyboardless Expander
or as a rackmount module. It has been used by Stevie
Wonder, Sean Hopper, Richard Wright, Patrick Moraz, Paul Shaffer, Lorin
Hollander, Michael Kamen, Vangelis, Kitaro, and John Carpenter.

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... get a nice piano sound out of the XS. The arps are nice, but overkill. I think using the k250 will be more inspiring for writing songs. It might seem crazy to some. I've pre-ordered ... | Read more...